Summer and Flowers in Orizaba

If you remember from our last post, we are spending the summer in Orizaba, Veracruz. So lets start this post out with a 2nd floor view from our townhouse. The cable-cars run from the city center up to Cerro del Borrego about a 1,000' climb in just a few minutes. At the top there's an eco-park, museum & you can catch a glimpse of the snow-covered Pico de Orizaba. (Click on images for larger view).

One of the many things we like about this city is the flower market. Most of the flowers here come from Puebla, about a two hour drive up on the central Mexican Plateau and also from some smaller communities nearby. There's a great variety of affordable flowers and they are very popular. The market is always busy and you can find many different artsy arrangements or just big bundles....

 

or five gallon bucket-fulls. Flowers seem to permeate Orizaba....

 

They are found in one of our favorite snacks here, the Memela. It's a hand-made corn tortilla topped with salsa, fresh cheese, and squash flowers.....yeah baby! I'll take two please!

Here's KT cooking some at home....

Oh the house needs some life....Oh what should I get?? Sunflowers, roses, mums, dahlias, hmmmmmm...

 

OK nice choice Jane, these are going to look great in the townhouse....

Now the coffee flowers out in the front yard have already turned to beans, so here's KT filling up the coffee bean bucket.....so many beans so little  time!

The weather here has been perfect for us. Warm days, cool nights, plenty of rain in the evenings & at night to make everything grow. There are millions of sights here in Orizaba, here's one to leave you with. Stay tuned for more images of this great little city we have been so lucky to wander into. Peace and Love, KnJ.....